Everything about Zayin totally explained
Zayin (also spelled
Zain or
Zayn) is the seventh letter of many
Semitic abjads, including
Phoenician 𐤆,
Aramaic,
Hebrew,
Syriac ܙ and
Arabic alphabet []. It represents a
voiced alveolar fricative,
IPA /z/.
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the
Greek Zeta (Ζ),
Etruscan z,
Latin Z, and
Cyrillic Ze З.
The
Proto-Canaanite glyph appears to be named after a sword or other weapon. (In
Hebrew, "Zayin" means sword, and the verb "Lezayen" means to arm). The
Proto-Sinaitic glyph according to
Brian Colless may have been called
ziqq, based on a
hieroglyph depicting a "manacle".
Hebrew Zayin
An apostrophe can be placed in front of Zayin ('ז), making it represent /[[Ezh(letter).
Significance
In
gematria, Zayin represents the number seven, and when used at the beginning of
Hebrew years, it means 7000 (for example זתשנד in
numbers would be the
date 7754).
Zayin is also one of the seven letters which receive a special crown (called a
tagin) when written in a
Sefer Torah. See
Shin,
Ayin,
Teth,
Nun,
Gimel, and
Tzadi.
Syriac Zain
Zain is a consant with the "z" sound which is a
voiced alveolar fricative.
Arabic Zayn
The letter is named
zayn, and is written is several ways depending in its position in the word:
.
The similarity to ر is likely a function of the original Syriac forms converging to a single symbol, requiring that one of them be distinguished as a dot; a similar process occurred to
ǧim and
a'.
A variant of Arabic .
is ژ /ʒ/, used in for example the
Uyghur language (see
K̡ona Yezik̡).
Further Information
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